. From colony to commonwealth, being a brief history of federation. Together with a record of the festivities and ceremonies which took place in the city of Sydney on the occasion of the proclamation of the Commonwealth in January, 1901. fp I ^ i^ 46 to 54 YORK STREET, SYDNEY. Agencies in ...ADELAIDE, WELLINGTON, BRISBANE, LAUNCESTON. FROM COLONY TO COMMONWEALTH. 49 The delegates reached London in March, and was chosen spokesman. Conference soon beg^anwith the Colonial Office and the Crown lawyers, afterMr. Chamberlain had officially received the delee^ates onMarch 15. It was found t
. From colony to commonwealth, being a brief history of federation. Together with a record of the festivities and ceremonies which took place in the city of Sydney on the occasion of the proclamation of the Commonwealth in January, 1901. fp I ^ i^ 46 to 54 YORK STREET, SYDNEY. Agencies in ...ADELAIDE, WELLINGTON, BRISBANE, LAUNCESTON. FROM COLONY TO COMMONWEALTH. 49 The delegates reached London in March, and was chosen spokesman. Conference soon beg^anwith the Colonial Office and the Crown lawyers, afterMr. Chamberlain had officially received the delee^ates onMarch 15. It was found that the main matters of con-tention were the limitation of the rig-ht of appeal to thePriyy Council, and the more definite bring-incf of theCommonwealth laws and judi^ments under review. NewZealand also pressed for such amendment as should. HON. ROBERT PHILP, PREMIER -AND TREASURER (QUEENSLAND). assure her admission to the Commonwealth at anyperiod within seven years as an Original State. This,however, was not conceded. Western Australia askedfor the removal of the proposed sliding customs tariffapplied to that colony ; this likewise was not on the appeal question between Mr. Cham-berlain and the delegates reached a deadlock, the latterinsisting that they had no power to consent to amendthe Bill. The matter was referred to the Premiers, and 50 PROM COLONY TO COMMONWEALTH they met once more at Melbourne on April 19, whertthey had some difficulty in ag-reeing. Mr. Philp, thePremier of Queensland, like Mr. Dickson, was in favourof amending-, but the Premiers decided that, while theyhad no power to alter the peoples handiwork, theamendment desired by the Imperial Government waspreferable to delay in passing the Bill.
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